Normalizing Tracks

[Rickers]

Before I burn a music disc I highlight all the tracks and normalize them all so that the disc will have an even sound level on all the songs. But for some reason this does not happen. when listening to disc some songs will be quieter and some louder than others. Any suggestions as to why the Normalize Tracks feature is not working for me?

[tsantee]

Are the source audio files AIFF? If not, convert them to AIFF. They can't be a compressed format such as AAC or mp3.

[Rickers]

Thanks tsantee. What I did is after compiling the songs I wanted to burn into Toast I saved the entire project and than reopened it and the tracks were all converted to .aif files and so far they all seem to have the same sound level upon the first listen to the newly burned disc.

[toxdoc]

I know this reply is late, but normalizing tracks does NOT make them all the same volume. What is does is make the PEAK level of each track the same level. It does nothing to alter the dynamic range. In order to make each song sound the same volume, one would have to compress, and then normalize.